Edward Hook III, MD

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Medicine / Infectious Diseases
703 19th Street South, ZRB 242
Birmingham, AL
USA 35294-0007
Email: ehook@uab.edu

Biographical Sketch:
1976-1979 - Internship and Residency, University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, Seattle, WA. 1979-1980 - Chief Resident in Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA. 1980-1983 - Senior Fellow in Infectious Disease, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 1983-1985 - Acting Assistant Professor, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 1985-1988 - Assistant Professor of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 1985-1992 - Chief, Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Clinical Services, Baltimore City Health Dept. 1986-1988 - Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 1988-1992 - Associate Professor of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 1988-1992 - Associate Professor of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 1992-present - Professor of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL. 1992-present - Medical Director, STD Control Program, Jefferson County Department of Health. 1992-present - Professor of Epidemiology, UAB, Birmingham, AL. 1993-present - Senior Scientist, UAB AIDS Center. 1995-present - Senior Scientist, UAB Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease Center. 1996-present - Co-Director, UAB Interdisciplinary Center for Social Medicine and STDs. 2002-present - Professor of Microbiology, UAB, Birmingham, AL. 2000 - Achievement Award, American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (ASTDA). 2001-2008 - Best Doctors in America 2001-2008, UAB, DOM, Infectious Diseases, www.bestdoctors.com. 2006 - Charles C. Shepard Science Award, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry for Warner L, Macaluso M, Austin HD, Kleinbaum DK, Artz L, Fleenor ME, Brill I, Newman ER, and Hook EW III. Application of the case-crossover design to reduce unmeasured confounding in studies of condom effectiveness. Am J Epidemiol. 2005;161:765-773. 2008 - Thomas Parran Award, American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association. 1985-present - Fellow, American College of Physicians. 1972-present - American Society for Microbiology. 1991-present - Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America. 1997-present - American Clinical and Climatological Association. 1993-present - STD Advisory Board, Alabama State Department of Public Health. 2001-present - Technical and Scientific Consultant, WHO, STD Diagnostic Initiative. 2006-present - Chair, Board of Directors, American Social Health Association. 2005 - Technical and Scientific Consultant for the CDC STD Treatment Guidelines. MMWR. 2006;55(No.RR-11). 2006-present - Chair, CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention and Treatment. 2006- present - Member, National Center for Infectious Diseases Board of Scientific Counselors, CDC. Author or coauthor of 237 peer-reviewed journals, 41 chapters, 12 editorials and 3 edited books. Numerous presentations at scientific meetings.